On which I write about the books I read, science, science fiction, fantasy, and anything else that I want to. Currently trying to read and comment upon every novel that has won the Hugo and International Fantasy awards.

Saturday, June 27, 2009

Comments: Once again the Best Art Book category was eliminated as an independent entity and folded into the Best Nonfiction, Related, or Reference Book category. Once again this new supercategory seems to make little sense, throwing together wildly different works and expecting the voters to be able to meaningfully compare them one against another. Once again, this merger of categories makes little sense. Once again, I have no idea what the rationale for this merger was, or what it was intended to accomplish.

Other Nominees:
2. The Dragons of Babel by Michael Swanwick
3. An Evil Guest by Gene Wolfe
4. The Shadow Year by Jeffrey Ford
5. The Bell at Sealey Head by Patricia A. McKillip
6. An Autumn War by Daniel Abraham
7. The Knights of the Cornerstone by James P. Blaylock
8. The Hidden World by Paul Park
9. Shadowbridge/Lord Tophet by Gregory Frost
10. The Alchemy of Stone by Ekaterina Sedia
11. The Ghost in Love by Jonathan Carroll
12. The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie
13. The Love We Share Without Knowing by Christopher Barzak

14. Memoirs of a Master Forger by William Heaney (aka How to Make Friends with Demons by Graham Joyce)

3. The Tear by Ian McDonald
4. Once Upon a Time in the North by Philip Pullman
5. True Names by Benjamin Rosenbaum and Cory Doctorow
6. The Word of God: Or, Holy Writ Rewritten by Thomas M. Disch
7. The Philosopher's Stone by Brian Stableford
8. Or Else My Lady Keeps the Key by Kage Baker
9. Truth by Robert Reed
10. The Surfer by Kelly Link
11. The Hob Carpet by Ian R. MacLeod
12. The Man with the Golden Balloon by Robert Reed
13. The Political Prisoner by Charles Coleman Finlay
14. Mystery Hill by Alex Irvine
15. Arkfall by Carolyn Ives Gilman
16. Tenbrook of Mars by Dean McLaughlin
17. The Overseer by Albert E. Cowdrey

3. The Things that Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away by Cory Doctorow

4. The Ice War by Stephen Baxter
5. Pride and Prometheus by John Kessel
6. The Rabbi's Hobby by Peter S. Beagle
7. Crystal Nights by Greg Egan
8. The Gambler by Paolo Bacigalupi
9. Turing's Apples by Stephen Baxter
10. Five Thrillers by Robert Reed
11. Uncle Chaim and Aunt Rifke and the Angel by Peter S. Beagle
12. The Hour of Babel by Tim Powers
13. The Star Surgeon's Apprentice by Alastair Reynolds
14. Lost Continent by Greg Egan
15. If Angels Fight by Richard Bowes
16. Days of Wonder by Geoff Ryman
17. Conversation Hearts by John Crowley
18. The Ray-Gun: A Love Story by James Alan Gardner
19. The Tale of Junko and Sayuri by Peter S. Beagle
20. Fury by Alastair Reynolds
21. Memory Dog by Kathleen Ann Goonan
22. Radio Station St. Jack by Neal Barrett, Jr.
23. Machine Maid by Margo Lanagan
24. Special Economics by Maureen F. McHugh
25. The Dust Assassin by Ian McDonald
26. An Eligible Boy by Ian McDonald
27. An Alien Heresy by S.P. Somtow
28. Beyond the Sea Gate of the Scholar-Pirates of Sarsköe by Garth Nix
29. Following the Pharmers by Brian Stableford

15. The Sky that Wraps the World Round, Past the Blue and Into the Black by Jay Lake

16. Ass-Hat Magic Spider by Scott Westerfeld
17. The Dream of Reason by Jeffrey Ford
18. Invisible Empire of Ascending Light by Ken Scholes
19. The Film-makers of Mars by Geoff Ryman
20. The House Left Empty by Robert Reed
21. Reader's Guide by Lisa Goldstein
22. Fifty Dinosaurs by Robert Reed
23. Goblin Music by Joan Aiken
24. The Seventh Expression of the Robot General by Jeffrey Ford
25. Snatch Me Another by Mercurio D. Rivera

3. Pretty Monsters by Kelly Link
4. The Drowned Life by Jeffrey Ford
5. The Best of Lucius Shepard by Lucius Shepard
6. Dark Integers and Other Stories by Greg Egan
7. H.P. Lovecraft: The Fiction by H.P. Lovecraft
8. Nano Comes to Clifford Falls and Other Stories by Nancy Kress
9. Other Worlds, Better Lives: A Howard Waldrop Reader by Howard Waldrop
10. The Wall of America by Thomas M. Disch
11. The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories by John Kessel
12. The Adventures of Langdon St. Ives by James P. Blaylock
13. The Serial Garden: The Complete Armitage Family Stories by Joan Aiken
14. Long Walks, Last Flights, and Other Strange Journeys by Ken Scholes
15. Works of Art by James Blish
16. Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters by John Langan
17. The Wreck of the Godspeed and Other Stories by James Patrick Kelly
18. The Ant King and Other Stories by Benjamin Rosenbaum

19. Gateway to Paradise: The Collected Stories of Jack Williamson, Volume Six by Jack Williamson

20. The Autopsy and Other Tales by Michael Shea
21. Ten Sigmas and Other Unlikelihoods by Paul Melko

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